Reviews

This is one of the better LMN movies I've seen in a while. The movie did keep me on my toes and curious as to where the plot would go next, and the plot did take some exciting and unexpected turns.

There are several events in the movie that would make no sense in real life, however: the scene in which Daisy's boss' daughter shows up to her house to tell her she was fired for poisoning her mom wouldn't have just ended up with her being fired. Most likely, Daisy's boss would have pressed charges and Daisy would have been arrested then.

Also, the scene when Violet is giving Allison the makeover and Allison confides to Violet that she's "not into guys," but Daisy and Garrett don't yet know, goes nowhere in the movie. Someone as scheming as Violet would have found a way to weaponize that against Daisy.

Moreover, the scene in which Violet uses the stolen passwords to Daisy and Garrett's bank accounts to drain Allison's college fund is also unrealistic: most banks have rules that would prevent a transfer of that amount electronically without prior verbal and written authorization from the depositor. In addition, Daisy could immediately - upon receiving the confirmation text - notify her bank that she did not make that transaction, and it would have been halted.

Finally, the scene in which Violet drugs Daisy's coffee with Rohypnol (the date rape drug), lures Oliver the conman over there, and stabs him to death, then places the knife in an unconscious Daisy's hands also would be suspect. The investigating cop would have to be an amateur not to wonder why the con man would show up at the victim's house after successfully defrauding her. Also, the cop should have wondered why the killer is unconscious with a knife in her hands, and see that the angles at which she lay and the dead con man lay are not consistent with a genuine revenge killing. And even the part when Garrett tells an imprisoned Daisy that they found no drugs in her system is wrong: Rohypnol can be detected in the body for up to 60 hours - 2 1/2 days - after being ingested.

Despite all these unlikely events, I still found the movie entertaining, and give it six stars for the thrill.

This episode made absolutely no sense: Genele throws Frank Agretti - a man who demonstrated such personal and moral strength in the prior seasons - out of his own home? Then he goes to the police with the remains of his wife with the story of what happened, which he tells like some lunatic?

The last you see of Rod Taylor, as Frank Agretti, is of him being arrested and taken away. Frank Agretti is clearly a moral man who tried to initiate peace between the Channings/Giobertis and the Agrettis; who reconciled with his estranged son and grandson; who helped rescue Lance and Melissa from the shaft; who helped rescue young Michael when he fell into the well; and who jumped in to save Angela from Richard's plot to have her declared mentally incompetent. And THIS is how they end his character on Falcon Crest?

At the very least, they could have written Frank out by sending him back to the emerald mine in Peru; or they could have had him gear up for a fight with Genele that might lead to his demise. His character should certainly have gone away with dignity.

But, as most viewers knew by this point. Falcon Crest was on its last legs; and the writers were clearly throwing paint at the wall to see what would stick.

This was a great episode, and when I watched it when it first aired in 1995, I was on the edge of my seat for most of it.

But as this would be Rob Estes' final appearance as Detective Chris Lorenzo (and the following episode Mitzi Kapture's final appearance), it marked the beginning of the end of my interest in the series.

I was fine with Kapture's and Estes' immediate successors, Tyler Layton and Nick Kokotakis, as we got some introduction to them in earlier episodes. But at the start of the next season, when they were replaced by Janet Gunn and Chris Potter, I just could not relate to them. After a few episodes in season 5, I stopped watching.